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• I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability…
• You accept failure as a possible outcome of some of the experiments. If you don't get failures, you're not pushing hard enough…
• TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.
• I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources…
• Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both…
• I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness…
• We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.
• I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a…
• It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.
• Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and…
• One of the reasons I continue to speak out is that the solutions to the counterterrorism problem involve other parts of the…
• The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But…

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